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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 9ab2a3d6f2b4..568e7ea3c4ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1141,3 +1141,19 @@ pointer are gone. set_blocksize() takes opened struct file instead of struct block_device now and it *must* be opened exclusive. + +--- + +** mandatory** + +->d_revalidate() gets two extra arguments - inode of parent directory and +name our dentry is expected to have. Both are stable (dir is pinned in +non-RCU case and will stay around during the call in RCU case, and name +is guaranteed to stay unchanging). Your instance doesn't have to use +either, but it often helps to avoid a lot of painful boilerplate. +Note that while name->name is stable and NUL-terminated, it may (and +often will) have name->name[name->len] equal to '/' rather than '\0' - +in normal case it points into the pathname being looked up. +NOTE: if you need something like full path from the root of filesystem, +you are still on your own - this assists with simple cases, but it's not +magic. |